{"id":376219,"date":"2026-04-01T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/376219\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:28:08","slug":"dirty-diapers-born-again-in-japan-recycling-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/376219\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty diapers born again in Japan recycling breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      SHIBUSHI, KAGOSHIMA PREF. \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan \u2014 more from seniors than babies \u2014 but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease of life, one hot mess at a time.<\/p>\n<p>A pilot project, billed as a world first, reuses the main ingredient in diapers to make new ones, offering hopes to ease bloated landfill sites and respond to a growing need for adult diapers in aging Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demand for baby diapers is falling. But a growing number of elderly people wear diapers, and more recently, even pets do too,&#8221; said Takahisa Takahara, president of Japanese hygiene product maker Unicharm, the firm behind the new initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHIBUSHI, KAGOSHIMA PREF. \u2013 Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[22119,246,61,60,44811,3751,82,165330],"class_list":["post-376219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-elderly","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kagoshima","tag-recycling","tag-science","tag-unicharm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}